"Ive got a job, a
secretary, a mother, two ex-wives, and several bartenders that depend
upon me, and I dont intend to disappoint them all by getting myself
slightly killed."
 Cary Grant as Roger Thornhill

Screenplay by Frances Goodrich
& Albert Hackett & Frank Capra, based on the short story "The
Greatest Gift" by Philip Van Doren Stern, contributions to the screenplay
by Michael Wilson and Jo Swerling

"Bigsee! I dont
want one for one night. I want something for a thousand and one nights,
with plenty of room for labels from Italy and Baghdad, Samarkand . . .
a great big one!"
 Jimmy Stewart as George Bailey

Screen story and screenplay
by Budd Schulberg, based on "Crime on the Waterfront" articles
by Malcolm Johnson

"You want to know whats
wrong with our waterfront? Its love of a lousy buck. Its making
love of a buck  the cushy job  more important than the love
of man. Its forgetting that every fellow down here is your brother
in Christ."
 Karl Malden as Father Barry

17

Tootsie
(1982; dir. Sydney Pollack)

Screenplay by Larry Gelbart
and Murray Schisgal, story by Don McGuire and Larry Gelbart

"Look, you dont know
me from Adam, but I was a better man with you as a woman than I ever was
with a woman as a man. Know what I mean?"
 Dustin Hoffman as Michael Dorsey

"Mr. Kane was a man who
got everything he wanted and then lost it. Maybe Rosebud was something
he couldnt get or something he lost. Anyway, it wouldnt have
explained anything. I dont think any word can explain a mans
life."
 William Alland as Jerry Thompson